Having a "no smoking" section at a resturant is like having a "no peeing" section at the pool! I personally have nothing against smokers. You get kind of de neuralized after being in the Navy for many years, but my wife is very offended by it, so I guess I am too . . .<whack> I mean I AM too! Resturants do seem to be the worst though. Ihave seen some where they seem to alternate tables one smoking then one non smoking. Does not make sense sometimes.

I might catch heck for this one, but there should be no smoking in restaurants and bars, or in any public building. The health risks of second hand smoke are a proven fact. I think everyone should be free to do what they want in this country, unless it causes harm to others, and smoking causes harm to bystanders. Even having a designated "smoking section" in a restaurant is useless because the smoke still carries into the non-smoking sections.

I heard on a local radio station that some bars and restaurants that prohibit smoking actually get more customers once they ban smoking....I thought that was interesting.

I might catch heck for this one, but there should be no smoking in restaurants and bars, or in any public building. The health risks of second hand smoke are a proven fact. I think everyone should be free to do what they want in this country, unless it causes harm to others, and smoking causes harm to bystanders. Even having a designated "smoking section" in a restaurant is useless because the smoke still carries into the non-smoking sections.

I heard on a local radio station that some bars and restaurants that prohibit smoking actually get more customers once they ban smoking....I thought that was interesting.

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Hey Dave start smoking and you will slim down like the doctor told you too. LOL It might kill you but just think how good you'll look.LOL

And speaking about kids, I rather have some cigar smoke in my face, cigarette ash in my food and a cigar butt doing swimming ballet in my shot glass than have to sit in a place with crying babies and / or out of control ankle bitters acting like they're in the playland at McDonalds.

PARENTS: You think your little darlings are being cute? NOT!!! Their being OBNOXIOUS. But, if a Cracker Barrel had an obnoxious brat section, you'd be off to the local court house, in a heart beat, filing a law suit and / or walking a picket line in front of the place, screaming about YOUR rights.

Live and let live. Besides, you have a greater risk of dying from the fats in that restaurant food than you do sitting thirty feet or more from the smoking section.

I Was A Smoker Until Last Dec.then I Quit.no I Don't Believe They Should Allow Smoking In Resterants.if A Person Can'thold Off Smoking Long Enough To Eat Then Stay home.

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I quit somking several times, but I didn't get all indignant when someone else lit up. And I may have come real close a time or two, I never told parents they should have left there whiney curtain climbers at home. Guess I had some stupid notion about them having rights too.

I did tell a lady to put a leash on her rug rats I was sitting in the waiting room while my wife was having surgery and this ladies rugrats were climing on me i said several times for them to stop well after getting a foot in the groin area i told her to put them on a leash she got all mad and complained hehe she lost on that one